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Elena Kagan nominated by Obama for Supreme Court
Date: 5/10/2010 7:34:03 AM Sender: BBC
Elena Kagan nominated by Obama for Supreme Court


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Mr Obama said Ms Kagan would bring integrity and passion to the post


US President Barack Obama has nominated Solicitor-General Elena Kagan as the 112th justice to the Supreme Court.

Ms Kagan, a 50-year-old former Harvard Law School dean, was at Mr Obama＇s side at the White House when he announced, as expected, that she was his pick.

She would be the youngest member and third woman on the current court as well as the first justice in many years not to have been a judge.

Republicans warned she would not receive rubber-stamp approval.

The Senate must confirm whether the nominee - who has spent much of her professional life in academia - can replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that her "brief litigation experience" would be reviewed.

Mr Obama said Ms Kagan would bring excellence, independence, integrity and passion to the post.

The BBC＇s Richard Lister in Washington says Ms Kagan is regarded as a liberal on most issues.

But she has worked with conservatives and even attracted a liberal backlash against her support for continuing Bush administration policies on state secrets and the use of military commissions to try terrorism suspects, our correspondent adds.

Her staunch advocacy of gay rights may concern Republicans.

She went through a fairly smooth confirmation process in the Senate for her current job this year, when seven Republicans voted for her.

Early in her career she was a clerk for a US Court of Appeals judge and later for former Justice Thurgood Marshall.

And like Mr Obama, she worked on the prestigious Harvard Law Review as a student.


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